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Sandhya Sharma ¹, Satish Kashyap ²

Affiliations
1 Culture, Chaudhry Charan Singh Haryana Agricultual University, Hisar, Haryana, IN
2 Folk-Dramatist, Chaudhry Charan Singh Haryana Agricultual University, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Ancient folk theatre of India, Swang has a spectacular 2 similarity with Bretolt's Brecht's Verfremdungeffekt. Bretolt Brecht always advocated the entertainment with purpose. Same way Swang an epic theatre form of India is also advocating the same objective. In this study we tried to compare these forms in detail how both performance serve the same purpose.

Keywords

Swang and Bretolt Brecht's Epic Theatre, Cerfremdungseffekt.

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Sandhya Sharma ¹, Satish Kashyap ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Culture, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN
2 Exhibition Officer, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Swang is India's most ancient Folk opera Theatre. Folk Theatre is a composite art form in India with a fusion of elements from music, dance, pantomime, versification, epic and ballad recitation, graphic and plastic arts, religion and festival peasantry. Swang having ischolar_mains in native culture is embedded in local identity and social values. Besides providing mass entertainment, it helps Indian society as indigenous tools of interpersonal, inter-group and intervillage communication for ages. Swang has been used extensively in India to propagate critical social, political and cultural issues in the form of theatrical messages to create awareness among the people. As an indigenous form it breaks all kinds of formal barriers of human communication and appeals directly to the people. Realising the importance and powerfulness of the traditional medium. People in rural areas should be approached through traditional-folk forms of communication in addition to electronic media. Bhagat, Mach, Tamasha, Nautanki and all most all the folk theatre is Generated from Swang. Different forms of Folk Theatre in India are traditional way of Communication and constitute a potential source for conveying messages for Social, Economic and Cultural Development which ultimately helps in overall Nationaal Development.

Keywords

Folk Theatre, Swang, Social Development, National Development.

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Sandhya Sharma ¹, Satish Kashyap ¹

Affiliations
1 CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Art has no pre-defined function, which means that it can be harnessed to serve any number of purposes, including no purpose at all. Sometimes art is successful because it educates us, inspires us, challenges us, disturbs us, or even insults us. But if art didn't appeal to some people at least some of the time, it would cease to play much role in human affairs. Swang commands a prominent place in personal experience, economic life, and collective culture. Swang could not have achieved or sustained such prominence without tapping into the biology of pleasure. It is suggested that aesthetic philosophers have underestimated the complexity, richness, pervasiveness, and importance of neurological pleasure. A defense of the “pleasure principle” in Swang is given from the perspective of evolutionary psychology.

Keywords

Art, Swang, Culture, Pleasure.

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